The Sun. — London, England, 1836-08-20 00:00:00

KING'S LEVEE .ir Majesties arrived in town at half-past one o'clock yes terday afternoon, from Windsor Castle. The King held a l evee at S t. James's at two o'clock.. _ Mr. Tricoupi, the G rec i an Minister, I:ad an audience of his 11ajesty to deliv er a l etter. His Excellency was introduced by viscount Palmerston, State for Foreign Affairs, and conducted by Sir Robert Ches ter, Master of the Ceremonies. In the entree circle, the Count Lazansky, Chamberlain of K um,mperor of A ustr i a, was presented to the King, by M. nmelauer the Austrian Charge d'Affaires. M. de M ace d o, Secretary of the Brazilian Legation, was presented to his Majesty, by M. Galvac, the Brazilian Minister. The levee was attended by Prince Ernest of Hesse Phi nPpsthal ; the Neapolitan, Prussian, Swedish, Danish, Por tuguese, Grecian, Bavarian, Brazilian, Netherlands, Sardi nian, and Saxon Ministers • Noory Effendi, Ottoman Minis ter, accompanied by M. Salame, his Majesty's Oriental Inter preter; Count Wetterstedt, Swedish Minister for Foreign affairs; C ount Gustof Lowenhjelm, Swedish Minister at the rt of France ; the Austrian, Russian, and French Charge d'Aff • V air es ; M. Li c h ten b erg , H anover i an P r i vy C ounc il lor Legation ; C ount Seckendorff, Secretary to the Prussian tegation ; Count d e G rammont, S ecretary to t h e French t lnba ssY; Towfi c k Eff en di, an d M ons i eur V ogor idi s, Secre tries to the O ttoman Legation ; Count A. Gyldenstolph i v a,nnes Aga, Dire c t or o f t h e S u l tan ' s P ow d er Mill s ; M . tju"iP Friel!, t h e Ambassador from the King of Oude ; ie Lord Steward ; the Master of the Horse ; Lord Hill, Gold Stick in Waiting; the Captain of the Honourable Corps Gentle men M at Arms ; the Captain of the Yeoman Guard ; rForb es , M inister in Saxony; the Vice-Chamberlain; the the o f t h e Household ; the Judge Advocate-General; tne Master of the Ceremonies; Sir Augustus Clifford, Usher (,)f the Black Rod ; the Solicitor-General ; the Dean of Here itr, Deputy Clerk of the Closet in Waiting, and Chaplain to aj a r r „, Qu een ; Mr. Sheriff Salomons, Mr. Sheriff Lainson, 6 - * Lteeve, Standard Bearer to the Honourable Corps of __entlernen at Arms ; Mr. Dernizy, Exon in Waiting to the .Yeoman of the Guard ; Sir John Louis, Naval Aide-de-Camp 1 an Sir Frederick Trench and Colonel Sir Charles :froke Vere, A. D.C. to the King ; Major Hyde, Assistant aster • and Marshal of the Ceremonies ; Lieut. Colonel Ca era di sb, Eque rry i n W a i t i ng ; C apt. C ourteney B oy l e, R .N., unni of the Pri v y Ch am b er; th e G room o f t h e R o b es; "Ir. Graves, Page of Honour; and the following—. ,Graves, Wellington, Norfolk. a kcans—Headfort. c,iallt..s—Shaftesbury, Ripon, Denbigh , Rothes, Fingal, Ichester, Clarendon, Rosslyn, De Grey. Visc ooNTs—Falkland, Lake. o• L°R ps—Nugent, Fred. Fitzclarence, Maryborough, Wham-- tlac Ellenborough, Duck, Ventry, Fitzgerald and Vesey, G. Halhburton H. Chichester, Barham, Hotham, Fitz gerald. ' IiONO URABLES—Anderson, Pelham, 0. Duncombe. 03, 1 8 1 ,!" - -Edmond Stanley, W. Gordon, T. D. A c kland, W. alley, W. Symonds, C. Cockerel, C. L. Herbert, Kean. it u . .. tVEREND—George Murray. AltssiEvas—Alex. C. Ogilvy, W. Honeywood, W. B. Dia -1.1114(19 C. Knight Murray, Capel, M'Leay, Moreign, Coch tane, Borthwick, M. P., J. T. Briggs, Grainger, George Mos ltbaC• yly, H. Methu lavanen,. Burney, Paulson, C. Dawkins, V. ' M A. De a.. nu taaLs—Sir Charles Rowley, Sir T. Hardy, Oliver, Sir •• Rodd, Page toendaPTAlNs (Royal Navy)—Sir J. Franklin, Kennedy, F. G. S ea enII MANDERS (Royal Navy)—Hon. P. Cory, Maconochie, llon, W. Sidney Smith. , LIRU TENANTS (Royal Navy)—Thomas Pearse, Ackerley. Bl' i L tla ßaaLs—Sir W. Gordon, Sir W. Lumley, Sir E. Ti, l / 4 e neY, Sir R. Donkin, Sir H. Bayly, Earl of Carnwath, ..urnton, L'Estrange, Durham, Sir J. Maclean. Coto:vats—Sir James Reynett, Sir Archibald Christie, d: ll ,,Brude ne ll, Darner, Sir William. Herries, Wilson Crow mi. H. Murray, W. Bell, O'Malley, Lest er , F arqu h ar - OnO Hon. O'R e i lly, L ygon, T o dd , M eyi i c k , J. E. Jones. " i °Rs—Stuart, Greaves, White. n " aP TAlNs—Norman, Barton, B. Layard, J. F. Strangways, yr, Orr, H ope , M Bidd u l p h, G erar d, B ow l es, M orshea d. i t'EtTENANTs—Yea, Eyre, Kirwan, Gill e y, H utc hi nson , ling-WokY, Whitmore, Bunyon, G. F. White, F reer , Brand , Ponsonby, Paget, Lord Earlsfort, R. H. Vyse. EN SIGNS_ —Preston, E, Donovan, Macki nnon . ' l "NSlGNS—Gr eenwoo d, Fowler, C. S. Boyle, G. P. Bourke. The following were presented to his Majesty : Mr. Alex. C. Ogilvy, by Mr. Poulter, M.P. Mr. Ch ar l es Knight Murray, on his appointment as Secre- Pr to the Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England, by his ce the Archbishop of Canterbury. Mr. cape], on his return from abroad. Lieutenant-Colonel Lord Brudenell, on his departure for 14 ia, by General Lord Hill. The Earl of Fingal, on coming to his title. Earl of Rothes, by Lord Frederick Fitzclarence. Lord Doug,las G. Hallyburton, on receiving rank as a Mar quiss son, by Viscount Ashbrook. N 0 Captains Guard, Morshead, George Fox Strangways and .;.orrnan, of the Royal Fusilcers, by Major-General Sir Edw. ialakeney, K. C. B. Captains Barton and Bowles, Royal Fusileers, by Lord F. Fitzelar e Li ent nee ' Mil d ena nts Yea, Bunyon, Ponsonby, Brandling, Eyre, Ma jnaY ' Kirwan, and Hutchinson, Royal Fu.siteers, by ETSj G eneral Sir Edward Blakenev, K. C. B. An Greenwood, on his departure for India. Colonel Fowler, on appointment to the 88th Regiment, by Lor d O'Malley. d Ventry, by Lord Frederick Fitzclarence. pLieutenant Gilley on return from foreign service, by Lord r• Fitzclarence. 141 1 entenant G. F . Whi te , 31st reg i ment , on return f rom 0 14 ' by Sir E. B arnes . Cornet Preston, 7th Hussars, by Sir W. Herries. tori e En,°erneti3C. Donovan, 13th Dragoons, by Colonel Broth er - PPO s ign Cavendish Spen illcer Boyle, 48th regiment, on hi s ntment by . e clnet M ac Ki nnon , 16th L ancers , on hi s a pp o i ntment, b y r • Mac Kinnon M. P. k,),Senobn-.Lientenan't Lord Earlsfort, Ist Life Guards, by Col. s p, M r. Cha r l es H . D e l evan, o f N ew Y or k , b y M r. S teven- Envoy E xtraor di nary o f t h e U n i te d S tates o f A mer i ca. ns ign 0. P. Bourke, 17th regt., by Mr. MacKinnon, M. P. Moreing, by Lieut.-General Callender. Burney, 72d regiment, by Sir J. Beresford. GCLord Hamilton Chichester, by Lord F. Fitzclarence. aptain Kennedy, R. N., his Majesty's guardship Teme tf' Earl Minto. Char]e s Lyon . Herbert, by Lord John Russell. '' ce n : Ptain Sir Joh n Fr an klin, R. N., t o take leave on pro hg to V an Di eman ' s Land, as the Lieutenant-Governor, Y Lord Glenelg. th„ M „ r • Mae L eay , hi s M a j esty ' s C omm i ss i oner an d Judge at e(,,`„ nt "arannah, on his return from the West Indies, by V is " v Palmerston. ser vice by W. Sid ney S m i t h, on return i ng f rom f ore ign Ly Earl Minto. k`:rnmander S ca ll ow , R. N. on his appointment to his 7 . sty's sloop Brune, by Sir C. Adam. b tinder the Hon. Plantagenet Cary, on going abroad, Y Lord Palkl d Sir av a n • E . M. O'Malley, Knight, 7th Royal Fusileers, by Sir ,blakeney. ur. Shean, on L ord F. Fitz his appointment to the Royal Fusileers, by Fitzclarence •cuei Mur.. Grainger, Royal M eat h, by th e M arqu i s o f Headfor t . . Coch rane , A ttorney -General of Gibraltar, b y L ord Cochra ne , tbi e i n nmander Maco noc hi e, on rece i v i ng the honour o f t h e Oa r, class o f t h e R oyal Hanoverian Orde and to take leave Pr,ueeeding to Van Diemen's Land, by the Earl of Minto. 4aTteaut— Col. Farquharson, Royal Fusileers, on return from Li e 1". tit— Col. Lester, Bombay Artillery, on his return from 6,, by Sir J. Hobhouse. s ei . v . a Ptain Hope Royal Fusileers, on his return from foreign en, by Lord ' F. Fitzclarence. 'llaptain Brownlow Layard, Ceylon Rifle Corps, on promo : and return from India by Sir E. Barnes. tzik;aptain Orr, 88th Regiment, on return from the lonian 15 Y Col. 0. O'Malley, C. B. vic''seaJor Stuart, Royal Fusileers, on return from foreign ser eE. by Lord F. Fi tz c l arence. '°Sir ut ßlak.- Colonel Crowder, M.P., Royal W e l s h F us il e er s , by eney, G. C. B. Aftr vi -..z the Lev ee hi s M a j esty h e ld a Pr i vy Council, which es a ttended b y t h e L or d Pres i dent, the Lord Chancellor, the es Privy Seal th e fi rs t L or d o f t h e T reasury, t h e Secre t4rieB Of State fo ' r the Home, Foreign, and Colonial Depart nts, t h e Chancellor of the Exchequer, the first Lord of the t drniral tY, the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, the d otr,e,Sident of the Board of Control, the President of the Boar 1 Trade, and the S tar at War. At the Council Fere y 86. 0. his Majesty's Speech, .o . n closing the Ses- It, 1 Parliament this day, was arranged TT ; c. Greville was the Clerk of the Council in Waiting. to the on his trans- John ni s/ 1 9 of Ely (late Bishop of Bristol) was introduced. latio King in the Royal Closet, and did homage on by Lord Joh : ! , o the see of Ely. The oath was administered the oltussell, Secretary of State for the Home Department . ; Wait. Dean of Hereford was the Deputy Clerk of the Closet in etaS , m g. His the Ministers, and the Great Officers of Le, a... 3 r% ... c .Ml vmeers of the Royal Household, were present at __erem ony. li The Earl of Fingal had an audience of the King, and . gave i4Ptiitehre. ribband of the Order of St. Patrick worn by his late His . I, r Al M aJesty gave audience to the Duke of Argyll, tt bemarle, 11,1arquis of Lansdowne, Viscount Melbourne,. Earl 41e4,1e Chancellor of the Exchequer, Lord Glenelg, Marquis of .dfort, Duke of Hamilton, and Viscount Palmerston. jests ' l'e Judge of had an audience of his Ma 411cl'.seto submit the proceedings of some Courts-martial. Lord c ount Ashbrook and Sir Robert Otway were the teem in Waiting. daPrinee Ernest of Hesse Phili WWI arrived in town yester- YVrom Windsor Castle. P liad ir M ania Archer Shee, President tiri a udience y esterday of the King of the Royal Academy, Ditht:eMajesty had a dinner party last evening, at St. James's 4ttenedsetelday th e Panorama was visited by the Persian Princes, sail deli" by Mr. St uart, and expressed the grea t es t won d e r Libiti ng .ght at b ot h t h e beautiful views w hi c h are new ex tord .T, 1- nn Scott an d hi s l ady have been enjoying 11,1:equatie excursion off the Scottish coast, in his Lordship's and co mmo di ous yacht, the Lufra f THE Their 1118: SHEFFIELD ELECTION (FROM A CORRESPONDENT.) AUG. 19, QUARTER TO Two, P.M. I have only a moment to spare to save post, to say that John Parker was nominated by Dr. Knight, and seconded by William Ibbotson, Esq. ; and John Bell, Esq., nomina ted by Mr. James Levick, and seconded by Mr. R. Sorsby, the landlord of the inn where Mr. Bell puts up at. On a show of hands the numbers for Mr. Parker were about 500, and for Mr. Bell about 2,000. A poll was demanded for Mr. Parker, which commences to-morrow morning at eight o'clock. There is no fear of the result ; you may rely upon Mr. Parker being returned by a very large ma jority ; there is not the shadow of a chance for Bell. SHEFFIELD, SIX O'CLOCK, FRIDAY. Mr. Bell has withdrawn from the contest, alleging that * "hefinds the voters pledged to a man to vote for Mr. Parker, and that he might spend 1001., and not for ward the cause of Radicalism one jot." Mr. Parker will proceed to poll a few votes in the morning , when the poll will close. " The election has been a complete farce." # Extracts from Mr. Bell's placards, just issued and signed by him. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. PLYMOUTH, DEVONPORT, and CORNWALL RACES, TUESDAY. The Produce Stakes of 25 soya. each, 15 ft. One mile. Mr. Wreford's Tyrant, Bst. 41b walked over Saltram Stakes of 25 sovs. each, 15 ft. Once round and a distance. Col. Gilbert's Westbury, 4 yrs, 6st. 81b... W. Frampton 1 Capt. Pettat's Caliph, 4 yrs, 6st. 81b Sir L. Glyn's Recruit, 3 yrs, 6st. 101 b Betting-20 to 1 agst the winner. Recruit the favourite. The Plymouth Plate of 100 sovs., added to a Sweepstakes of 10 sors. each. Heats, two miles and a distance. Lord Palmerston's Teothill, 3 yrs, 7st. Sib...S. Day 1 1 Mr. Wreford's Tyrant, 3 yrs, 7st. 51b 2 dr Mr. Tobins's Tauntonian, 4 yrs, 7st. 131 b . 3dr The Garrison Stakes of 5 sovs. each, with a handsome Gold mounted Hunting Whip added. Heats one mile. Maj. Macpherson's Jenny, aged Capt. Phillpets 1 1 Mr. Neale's Rodney, aged Mr. Heeme's Tipperary Less, 5 yrs WEDNESDAY. A Gold Cup,value 100 gs., the gracious donation of Majesty King William the Fourth. Heats, twice round. Mr. Wreford's Tyrant, 3 yrs, 85t.121b...5. Day 2 1 1 Colonel Gilbert's Westbury, 4 yrs, 10st. 71b... 1 2 dr The High Steward's Plate of 50 sovs. Heats, one mile. Mr. Trelaw ney's Land's End, Bst. 1 01b... S. Day 0 1 1 Mr. Wilson's Billy, aged, 7st. 121 b Sir J. Y. Buller 's Why Not, 4 yrs, Bst. 21b 2 2 2 Mr. R. Wise's Preference, 3 yrs, 7st. 71b 0 0 3 Mr. Phillips's Mayfly, 6 yrs, 7st. 31b . 3 0 0 The County Members' Plate of 25 sovs., added to a Sweepstakes of 3 sovs. each, for half-bred horses. Heats, once round. Sir W. Carew's Vision, 5 yrs,llst. 91b ...Featherstone 1 1 Colonel Gilbert's Harold, 4 yrs, I let Sir W. Trelawney na. Barbarossa, 6 yrs, 12st. llb 3 3 Mr. Honey's Beggar Boy, 5 yrs, llst. 101 b 4 4 The Ladies' Plate of 50 sovs. Heats, once round and a distance. Captain Pettat's Caliph, 4 yrs, 9st Trenn 1 1 Lord Palmerston's Toothill, 3 yrs, 7st. 121 b........ 5 2 Mr. Trelawney's Land's End, 6 yrs, 9st. 101 b 2 0 Mr. Nattle's Barbarossa, 6 yrs, 6st 3 0 Mr. Elliot's Defender, 4 yrs, ist. 121 b 4 0 NEWPORT PAGNEL RACES—THURSDi r. The Gold Cup Stakes of 10 sous. each (7 Subs.) were walked over for by Mr. W. Smith's Ruinous. The Plate of 50 sous. Heats, once round and a distance. Mr. W. Smith's Ruinous, Sit Mr. W. Mason's Water Nymph, 3 yrs, 6st. Bib... 2 2 Mr. Flesher's b. g. , 5 yrs, Set. 61b 3 dr The Hunters' Stakes of ssors. each. Heats, once round and a dis- tance. 12 Subs. Mr. Westley's gr. g. by Pilgrim, 6 yrs, list. 131 b 1 1 Mr. W. Marriott's Leeway, 5 yrs, 1 Ist. 61b... 2 2 Mr. Goodman's gr. g. by Marshall, 6 yrs, Ilst.l3lb 3 3 Mr. Ekins's bl. m. by Spring Gun, I Ist. 61b 4 dr LEE, LEWISHAM, GREENWICH and ELTHAM RACES.—YESTERDLY. The Licensed Victuallies Plate, added to a Sweepstakes of 3 sovs. each, for horses of all ages. Mr. Bishop's Jenny Wren, 6 yrs, 9st. 21b.,. Wakefield 0 3 1 1 Mr. Balchin's Guitar Mr. Brown's Eliza Thomville Mr. Seffert's Emir 3 dr The Scurry Stakes. I 1 st. each Mr. Reid's Alice Grey, 3 yrs Mr. Chamberlayne's Dreadnought, 3 yrs 1 3 3 2 Mr. Whitmarsh's Fear Not, a,ged Mr. Wellington's Fancy, aged Mr. Webber's Ada, aged The Handicap Stakes were won by Mr. Saddler's Tally-ho (Hornsby), beating Mr. Bishop's Jenny Wren, 6 yrs. ST. OMER RACES.-TUESDAY. A Prize of ICO fr. , given by the Pas de Calais. Mile and quarter. Mr. Bryan's Flea, aged Mr. Gale 1 1 M. Gehoul's Cheik, aged M. d'Herlen's Esmeralda, 5 yrs A Gold Cup, value 1,500 fr., given by the City. Two miles and a half. Prince de la Moscowa's Zitella, 5 yrs 3 1 1 Mr. Inee's Lady Albert, 4 yrs 2 2 2 M. le Comte Edgar Ney's Coroner, aged WEDNESDAY. The Ladies' Cup, value 1,520 fr. Two miles an 4 a half. Princtk-de la Moscowa's Zitella " Capt. Beecher 1 1 Mr. Ince's Lady Albert 2 dr Mr. Hart's Thea, 5 yrs The Hurdle Prize of 1,000 fr., given by the City. Mile and a quarter. - Mr. Smith's Leary Cove, aged...... Capt. Beecher 1 1 M. Comte de Vaublanc's Cydonia, aged M. Bryon's Narcois, aged LIEGE RACES.—SuND.ar. A Sweepstakes of 100 fr. each, with 100 added, for horses of all countries. Winner to be sold for 2,500 fr. Two miles. Lord 11. Seymour's Flight Flatman 1 Baron Von Heekeren's Cabin Boy 2 M. Beyan's Soldier A Sweepstakes of 100 fr. each, with 1,500 added, for horses bred on the Continent. Heats, two miles. Baron Von Heekeren's b. c. by Young Amphion 1 1 Colonel Hotton's Ernest Count Duval's Erivan 2 3 Mr. Cockerill's Nina MONDAY'. A Sweepstakes of 100 fr. each, with 2,500 fr. added, fur horses o f all countries. Heats, two miles. Lord Sevmour's Elizondo T. Robinson 1 1 Mr. CoCkerill's Amelia The Gilt Vase, value 1,000 k., for horses of all countries. Heats, two miles. The Society of Vervetoise's Waverer, Oliver 1 1 Baron Von Heekeren's b. 1. Griselda 4 2 Lord Seymour's gr. C. Morotto 2 3 Mr. Beyan's ch. c. Soldier 3 4 Both heats well contested. A Sweepstakes of 1,500:fr., for horses foaled in Belgium, was won by Count Duval's Delphini, beating Flyer. AQUATICS. ROYAL THAMES YACHTCLUD.—fhe second below bridge sailing match of the season, amongst yachts belonging to this Club, will come off on Monday. The cup is a very handsome one, and is given in honour of his Majesty's birthday. The Gazelle of 25 tons, the Telemachus of 21 tons, the Lady Louisa of 13 tons, the Alert of 16 tons, and the Princess Victoria of 25 tons, arc the boats entered. The Gazelle is a stranger, and, from her tonnage, should there be any wind out, may give the Princess Victoria, of Calais celebrity, her work to do. Should a light breeze be the ruling order of the day, the Lady must be the favourite. The Telemachus will, we have no doubt, be engaged in looking after the others. Her owner is much respected, but it is vice versa with his boat. In fact, betting men will forget that there is such a boat entered. TIIE SILVER Cues MATCH.—The gentlemen frequenters of Lyons's row their match from Westminster and Putney to day. It will be a double sculls wager, and the competitors are Mr. Lyon and Mr. Mitchell, Mr. Williams, and Mr. Galway, Mr. Heyliger and Mr. Randall, Mr. Smith and Mr. Conig, and Mr. Cookes, and Mr. Robinson. The match will be started an hour and a half before high water, but it is a late tide. Aviss's will be head-quarters. MATCH FROM MARGATE PIER TO LONDON BRIDGE.—Mr. Robinson's undertaking to row, with his watermen, two pair of sculls in a wherry from Margate to London Bridge, will no doubt come off about the 26th instant. He is to do the dis tance in twelve hours. It does not appear to be SG great an undertaking as his Gravesend match, and we doubt if there is much money on it. Mr. Robinson possesses game enough fur anything ; but there are some who think the novelty of the match its greaten feature.. WHO IS TIIE AUTHOR OF 66 RATTLIN THE REEFER ?"—This new story of the sea has arisen to such great popularity, as to pass with unprecedented rapidity into a Second Edition. It is stated to be written by Mr. Howard, Editor of the Metropolitan. Our clever contemporary, the Spectator, says, " This work professes to be only edited' by Captain Marryat. The book itself leaves little doubt of its paternity. It exhibits the humour, point, and terseness of the author of ' Peter Simple;' his nice perception of character, and power of representing it ; as well as his plain but strong and truthful style of description and narrative, intermingled occasionally with sarcastic or sagacious reflection. If ' Rattlin the Reefer' be examined with a close and nice scru tiny, it will be found to bear a family likeness to its elder brethren, Peter Simple,' &c. It is the same, yet another." The Sun remarks, " Like all Captain Marryat's tales, the in terest is sustained throughout by a series of striking incidents arising out of, and linked as naturally to each other, as cause and effect. All the principal characters arc drawn with the bold hand of a master." The Weekly Dispatch considers " Rattlin" to be "a work of great power and ori g inality, and of engrossing interest, and that it is a romance that must hold a high rank among the stock of amusing fictions. Whether Captain Marryat be the author, or whether, as the title page imports, the Gallant Captain is only the Editor, of this pro duction, the work does credit to inventive genius." From these concurring- opinions, it would seem that " Rattlin" at all events discovers power equal to that displayed in " Peter Simple." The pink - colour which ornaments the English por celain has been hither to unknow n to France, arid when re quired in that country was always bought here. M. Malagutti, of the manufactory of Sevres, has analyzed the colour till he is now able to compose it. In the course of his experiments he discovered another colour, similar to crimson lake, which is much more durable than any derived from the animal king dom, and which may be advantageously employed in oil painting. LIVERPOOL COTTON-MARKET, AUGUST 18.— The Cotton Market is very healthy—the sales 4,000 bags, at very full prices. THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY . AUGUST 20, 183 6. SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. One of the measures which Baron Lyndhurst plumed himself in his well-studied harangue, on Thursday evening, for destroying, was the Bill for the reformation of the mu nicipal system in Ireland. We shall be much surprised, indeed, if the destructiveness displayed by the Learned Baron in reference to that Bill be a second time paraded by him, either in or out of the House of Lords, as a pru dent or creditable trait of his legislatorial character, or as a discreet ground of pretension to the confidence, esteem, and respect of the nation. Though the people are calm, they are not apathetic, and the Tory leader will yet learn, to his sore dismay, that the victories he has won on the flaor of the Upper House in the session which terminates this day, by aid of a dense phalanx of factious Peers—the self interested advocates and natural guardians of abuse and cor ruption —are as fraught with disaster to Toryism, as those on a different field were to Pyrrhus. Baron Lyndhurst,we know, cares little for the consequences to his party —or, speaking more truly, to the party whose instrument he is, and whom in turn he uses for his own purposes—that must inevi tably result from the pernicious and insane course they have, under his reckless counsel, pursued during the last six months : he has satiated his own revenge for the loss of office in the blood of slaughtered measures, and he has puffed himself into notoriety, and made a name as a public speaker —matters that to a man of his elastic principles and India-rubber-conscience are of no small consideration, since, being in the market, he may hope not only to get a pur- chaser, but enhance his value. He may, therefore, gloat over the mischief he has been doing ; having, in the cloud of prejudice, passion, and vanity which surrounds him, n o perception of the feeling of the country. But we tell him his present exultation will be short-lived, and his fiendish joy - at the ruin he has been able to effect will soon give way to the bitterness of remorse. Drunk with vanity and flattery, he knows not into what a pit he has reeled. A few months will restoro him to the use of reason—and then will he behold with horror the awful predicament in which an ungenerous spirit, the lust of power, the rage of disap pointed ambition, and the flattery of corrupt parasites have placed him. Meantime,let us glance once more at the abuses of those Irish Corp9rki9wWhose corruptions he denliks, of • hose abuses he - diselifins all knoWledge i and whoselsol luted and demoralising existence he and his compeers have prolonged ; an achievement for which, on Thursday, he took to himself and his Noble Friends such credit. We will begin with Dublin, the abuses of which Corporation far exceed in magnitude those of any other town in Ireland. If in other respects that Corporation was nearly blameless, its enormous delinquency in the Pipe-water affair would suffice, to render a sweepinc , reform necessary. The par ticulars of this case, which a'Tory journal has found it con venient to call " a story," are these :—The Corporation (of Dublin) obtained, in 1796, an Act of Parliament, authorising them to levy a certain rate off the occupi ers o f houses in the city, for the supply of water. This water was supplied by means of wooden pipes laid down throughout the metropolis. The Act did not notice any debts due to or by the Corporation with respect to the water-works. After this Act passed, what was the very first act of the Corporation ? They voted to their treasurer 1,500/. a year out of the rates, in part, compensation of expenses incurred by them on the water-works, though, as has already been mentioned, the Act gave no colour of authority for this proceeding. Up to 1809, the corporation illegally retained out of these rates, and out of money borrowed on the security of these rates, no less than 47,600/, on account of this 1,500/. a year which they illegally granted to their treasurer. In 1809, they got an Act passed empowering them to substi tute a metal for the old wooden main. This Act recited that there was a debt of 67,000/. secured upon the rates, and that 33,000/. would be necessary to perfect the new works ; and it granted, accordingly, a power to levy new rates, called the Metal-main rates, until these two sums, amounting to 100,000/., should be liquidated, and no lonizer. The Corporation were to apply the funds pro vided for this liquidation. Did they do so ? Did they liquidate the debt ? Did they take a single step towards paying it off, and relieving the citizens from the heavy annual rate ? Not one of these things did the honest Corporation do. On the contrary, they jobbed away the rates, increasing the annuity of 1,5001. to their trea surer to 2,5001., and increasing the appointments of the several other officers connected with the water-works. For fourteen years the high rate was levied, and in 1823 the debt remained undiminished. Indignant at this barefaced swindling, some of the citizens in that year filed a bill in Chancery for an account of the rates received. In 1824 the corporation put in their answer, in which they stoutly insisted that the rates levied, as has been seen, under the provisions of the Act of 1809, were their own private pro perty, with which they were at liberty to deal according to their pleasure, without being accountable for the outlay in anywise to the citizens. That profound lawyer, the Lord Manners, whom a corrupt Government first made a puisne judge in England, and then Lord Chancel lor of Ireland, for no assignable reason than that he was a membef -of a great boroughtnonive, ring fainili . ;"and that the Government of the day was profligate—that sage personage dismissed the Bill with costs, alleging that he had no jurisdiction in the matter! From this precious decision the citizens appealed, and the House of Lords re versed the Chancellor's decree, ordering the account to be taken. In July, 1831, the Master reported, declaring that the tax ought to have ceased in 1825. The Master of the Rolls pronounced his decree upon this report, directing the Corporation to pay off the 74,0001. (we were wrong in formerly saying 78,0001.), which remained due to the holders of securities issued on the rates, and to pay also the costs of the suit. The Corporation appealed, and in the mean time endeavoured to evade the force of the decree, by issuing new securities upon the rates. The citizens had re course again to the Equity Court, and an injunction issued re straining the Corporators from proceeding thus infamously, and June, 1835, the House of Lords affirmed the decree of the Master of the Rolls, with costs. In 1827 the Corporation ceased to levy the rate, so that for eighteen years they pe culated to the amount of 74,0001., or about 4,1001, a-year, out of one municipal tax. We also find that in the years 1833-4, the law expenses of this body amount to 10,000/. This enormous sum was doubtless expended in these two years in the attempt to justify the previous robbery of 74,0001. And this is the body in whom Lord Lyndhurst untruly asserted that he had not admitted the existence of corruption or abuse ! This is the pet Corporation o f the Tories. This is the system which the Tory Peers have continued—an achievement upon which Baron Lynd hurst plumes himself, as though he were another Curtius —and for which the unprincipled Swiss of the Tory Press extol their Lordships to the third heavens ! —Morning Chronicle. We said yesterday that Lord Lyndhurst's speech was well timed. It was delivered on Thursday night, a Levee was held yesterday morning, and Parliament is to be pro rogued to-day. 'What with the King's speech and Lord Lyndhurst's speech, the Government have had a pleasant week of it. The impudence of these fellows ! A few weeks back, we detected them while hatching a conspiracy to smother the division on the appropriation clause by a point of privilege. We sent the news throughout the country. It circulated like lightning. All England responded to our appeal to their sense of every thing that was fair and ho nourable in revolting opposition to this pitiful and sneaking subterfuge of the Government. The country sympathized with our address. And what did the Ministry's creatures, their agents, and their organs ? They denounced our rea sonable and solemn admonition as a " Tory lie ;" they openly and zealously declared that such an idea as getting rid of their direful difficulties in regard to the Irish Church by an evasion had never entered the besotted brains of their masters. They taunted us with issuing forth a probable circumstance, in order to obtain the credit of circulating a positive truth ; though the first were false, and the last im possible. And what was the result The Leader of the Ministerial party in the House of Commons, though forced by our vigilant interference to relinquish his felonious pur pose, could not so far command the ebullitions of his small and ill-regulated soul as to conceal the primary purpose, the " original sin " of his distempered polity. Forsooth, he must tell us why he did not think fit to moot a point which if successful, would have been a disgrace, and if a failure, a defeat. Circumspect and magnanimous senator! And yet these miserable simpletons fancy that the same juggle is again to gull their credulous audience. The same pea is at work, though under another thimble. The fact is our well seasoned and vigorous interference has balked their ill digested and feeble machinations. The bubble is blown. Our warning has permitted the country to anticipate by its opinion what otherwise it could only have stigmatized by its verdict. The attack on the Lords, especially in the teeth of that masterly vindication that is echoing through out the island, won't do. The Government is baffled and beat. They betake themselves to a milk. and water ad dress, full of the prosperity of the country, which in their private conversations and in the loose talk of their orgies they acknowledge to be their greatest curse; and to common place thanks about granting matter of fact sup plies. What a wretched career must be that of the literary organs of this degraded Administration ! How ludicrous is the article on the King's sp eec h l ast n i g ht i n the evening instrument of Downing-street. Poor whimpering galley-slave ! When we first exposed the disgraceful trans action, the thing was instructed to ma k e a rep l y w hi c h virtually admitted the veracity of our statement, and gloried in the circumstance. We followed up our vigorous attack in an article which made all Downing-street pale, and the thing was silent. When utterly discomfited, when forced, through the indignant sense alik e o f t h e Ki ng a nd the nation, to relinquish their wretched plot, the baffled con spirators sought a miserable refuge in their miserable organ ; the thing, forsooth, in a mincing tone vows we have misrepre sented those choice and favoured beings, the King's Mini sters. Was ever such low impudence ? Why, the privilege case was nothing to this. There we heard the projected tac tics announced and recommended and boasted of in our own hearing by official characters scarcely excluded from the Ca binet ; and yet our report of these bold bad sayings was libelled as a " Tory lie ;" but here, and we speak without fear of contradiction, we declare, upon our knawledge, that the subject has not only been discussed in the Cabinet, but that a paragraph in due relation to the topic has been offi cially concocted by a Cabinet Minister ; that a well-known individual has been employed with infinite cajolery to sound the Royal ear upon the . subject ; that a Cabinet Counsel has, in consequence, been held ; and that other most "rich and rare" adventures have occurred, which, if tempted, we may yet deliver. Now, at the eleventh hour, the literary thing belonging to these men is ordered to scrape together an article, to whitewash their damaged and desperate reputations, by imputing falsehood to their op ponents. No, no ; it is for them the poor imbeciles" to lie ;" we need no such arts ; our revenge is " to speak the very truth" of them.— Tinges. It is a matter of but little consequence whether his Ma jesty's Speech to-day, upon the prorogation of Parliament, shall or shall not contain any inculpation of the conduct of the House of Lords during the present session of Parlia ment, for that conduct has been such, that whether it be or be not inculpated, no one can, by possibility, mistake that the House of Lords, with their Belial at their elbow, have, from the beginning to the end of the session, swamped every measure which was calculated to benefit the people by an enlargement or confirmation of their rights and privileges. The Tory Papers have used all their influence to persuade the public that his Majesty's Ministers had proposed t o . . in corporate in the Royal Speech a direct censure upon the con duct ofthe House of Lords, for rejecting and mis-amending the numerous Bills sent to them by the House of Commons. It was an artful trick on the part of the Times to endeavour to per suade the public, in two of the most silly and contemptible arti cles that ever appeared in the pettiest journal that ever existed, that his Majesty's Ministers had attempted to persuade the King to have inserted in Ins Speech a sentence directly in culpatory of the conduct of the House of Lords—inasmuch as the Times might afterwards take credit—the charge be ing utterly false--for having, by itself or its party, dissuaded his Majesty from having any such inculpation inserted in his Speech. We reply to. the Times in something like the language of Lord Melbourne on Thursday night, in reply to Lord Lyndhurst—there will be no such clause in the Speech ; but there will be, if we are rightly informed, such an expression of regret at the want of harmony between the two Houses of Parliament, as cannot by possibility fail to produca ail the results which would have arisen from a direct censure. Delicacy restrains us, as well as a just regard for those who have kindly furnished us with information, from saying more upon the subject.—Morning Advertiser. The discussion in the House of Lords on Thursday even ing deserves, and is calculated to excite, much more than the usual and fleeting interest of an ordinary Parliamentary debate. The whole kingdom is now—not agitated ; for, happily, Mr. O'Connell failed in that patriotic object—but deeply and earnestly absorbed in the grand question as to what sort of influence shall henceforward prevail in the Go vernment of this nation. The House of Commons has, by a small majority throughout the now expiring Session, coun tenanced principles and encouraged tendencies which, if pro ceeded with, could have no other ultimate result than that of the most important organic changes in the Constitution. There is no use in mincing the matter ; for common sense can come to no other conclusion than this—that our Con stitution is not worth three years'purchase if the political spi rit, avowed by a small majority of the House of Commons, should become the paramount political spirit of England. Our Constitutional monarchy could not stand such repeated shocks as have been directed against the institutions with which it is so indissolubly connected, if these shocks should prove to be national. If they are, as we firmly believe, but the work of a faction which the nation does not approve, then a different, and a far more glorious result may fairly be anti cipated. The Prime Minister, though a Member of the House of Lords, has become completely alienated from the prevailing sentiment of that body ; and, it is to be feared, is scarcely less alienated f'som another branch of the Legislature, to which, according to the spirit and form of the still existing Constitution, he ought to be most inti mately attached. It is much to be feared that, under the peculiar circumstances of his position, the Prime Minister almost forgets that he is the servant of the Crown. Evi dently disarmed, at least so far as political sentiment goes, by the aristocratic branch of the Legislature to which he belongs, and driven to shelter himself under the shield of a trifling majority of the Commons, he seems to forget that he owes a duty to any other power but that of the Commons, and he actually deports himself in the House of Lords, as if he were the Minister of that body, and not of his Majesty the King. The House of Lords has, however, taken upon itself throughout the Session, to act firmly and steadily under the influence of principles and sentiments very different from those which prevail by a minute majority in the Commons, and which are acted upon by the present Ministers. It sets itself against organic change ;—it determines to abide by the Constitution as it is ; and, especially, it holds fast to the 'Pro testantism which, by our fundamental laws,is interwoven with the existence of the Constitution as established at the era of 1688. For doing this it has been arraigned by a Minister of the Crown, as giving insult to the House of Commons, and disgust to the whole country. This charge was the subject of discussion on Thursday evening in the House of Lords, and it is under various forms, and with various degrees of directness, the actual subject of political discussion in every part of the British empire. There is no " collision"—no tumult ; but be it remembered that the Ministerial party spared no pains to bring matters to the arbitration of pub lic clamour and violence. There is, however, an intenie anxiety in the public mind upon the question whether the Lords have been guilty of a factious opposition to the House of Commons and the public sentiment, or the ma jority of the Commons have been guilty of factious opposi tion to the principles of our Constitutional Monarchy, and our Protestant Constitution ? We have not the slightest doubt that the more the debate of Thursday evening is studied, the stronger will be the impression upon calm, honest, and sensible minds, that the Lords have done their duty ; and that the complaints against them are dictated by party spite, and not by manly constitutional sentiment. Englishmen will consider what are the princi ples of duty upon which men in any particular situation are bound to act before they pronounce for or against these men. We are persuaded that when the principles of duty by which the Peers of Parliament ought to be bound, are • taken into consideration, it will be seen that they have acted steadily and faithfully in conformity with these principles in all they have done. If they have differed with the House of Com mons, it is because they have adhered more strictly to the letter and the spirit of that Constitution, under which Great Britain grew to the height of glory and prosperity which she has enjoyed. We believe it will be found that the Lords have not only restrained themselves within limits which the Constitution prescribes, but have forborne many things which they might have done, had they been disposed to exer cise an insulting, or even a triumphant spirit. Let Ministers say what they will of the small, yet motley and uncertain majority which they boast of in the House of Commons, it is, either in number or in respectability of individual cha racter, a mere nothing ; compared with the majority against them in the House of Lords ; yet no one occasion can be pointed out in which the majority of that House went out of its way to inflict a defeat upon Ministers. Had the Lords chosen to imitate the conduct pursued by the opponents of another Administration in the House of Commons, might they not have done so ? What was to prevent them from carrying resolutions quite as strong against the Ad ministration as those carried by Lord John Russell in March, 1835, against the th en ex i st i ng Ad m i n i strat i on ? Tiil - 4 . they might have done, but they refrained from this factious embarrassment of an existing Government. They patiently waited for such measures as that Government might bring forward. Such of them as they approved they' passed, others they amended, and some they rejected as impolitic and unconstitutional. This was the conduct of the Lords, and we are sure it will not meet with censure from the people of England—but the very contrary. There will be abundant occasion, we have no doubt, to recur again and again to this topic ; in the mean time, we offer these observation s upon it in what we think the well . grounded confidence, that while we espouse in moderation and sincerity the cause of the Protestant Constitution of Great Britain, we shall displease no one whom it would be our wish to conciliate.—Morning Herald. If six days ago Lord Palmerston had been asked what his opinion was of the Spanish Constitution of 1812, and whether he deemed it expedient that the money and the blood of the people of England should be employed in the attempt to re-establish it, what would have been the manner and the matter of- his Lordship's answer? Those who know the Noble Lord can be at no loss to answer this question. His Lordship, shruggins , up his shoulders, and putting on all the other airs of official sagacity, would un doubtedly have said, " we have nothing to do with the Con stitution of 1812. The object of the quadripartite alliance is not to restore the Constitution of 1812. We arc the allies of the chaste and amiable Queen-Regent of Spain, who cares as little as we do for Constitutions, and who hates, as we do, any Constitution so democratic as that of 1812." This is in substance what every body knows the Noble Lord at the head of the Foreign Department of Engl an d wou ld have said six days ago. But the ime t d o e:n , n o s e r a a n t d i c i o e n s s Constitution Spain of n IsBpilt2o of f s pr Lordoe! a Madam e M unoz ; and to that C ons tit u ti o n M a d ame dm Palmerston t s o ' a n r i a o n u ( s i Munoz, the Noble Lord's amiable ally, has been compelled to accede. This of •course- will make much difference in the opinions of his Lordship. The Constitution of 1812, much too democratic six days ago, is to-day the purest invention of human wisdom for the good government of a country. What Madame Munoz has ap oved, although constrained to do so by force, is sacred in the eyes of the Foreign Secretary of England. It is no longer of any importance to his Lordship whether the Constitution of 1812, or any other Constitution, or no Constitution whatever, be predominant in Spain. His Lordship is the auxiliary of the Queen-Regent, and, what ever Constitution she accepts, whether freely or b'y con straint, is, in the Noble Lord's opinion, no doubt, the very best of all possible Constitutions. It is to him a matter of indifference what form of Government the mob of Madrid may prefer. For him it is enough to say, that when the Queen-Regent approves, he is bound not to con demn. His Lordship, after expending much English .trea sure and much English blood in the Spanish warfare, upon the sound Whig principle of non-intervention, obtains at last the satisfaction of being heartily laughed a t f or hi s pains. Spain chooses for herself a Constitution --a Con stitution of all others the most unacceptable to him ; and he shelters himself behind his desk while he lisps out, " Let Spain do as she likes. We have nothing to do with the internal condition of that country. We have, in a word, been fighting for a Constitution of which we knew nothing, and for a cause entirely above our com prehension." Such is the language in which the foreign policy of Great Britain is now expressed. Such was not the language in which the foreign policy of England was expressed in former days when the alliance of England was deemed the harbinger and the guarantee of good go vernment, in the States which felt themselves to be under her high protection. Heretofore it has been deemed a matter of some importance under what constitutional re gime the people whom we had protected by our swords were to be governed. Thanks to Lord Palmerston and his colleagues, this influence on the part of England is at an end. We have sounded " the base string of humility." We are as abject as lackeys. To spend money and blood is now the only duty necessary to maintain the character of the English Government. To be cajoled by some Sove reips, and fascinated by others, is the height of our am bition. How the people are henceforth to be governed in the States for which we have employed our arms, is a matter of profound indifference, or a matter in which we no longer think we have a right to interfere. 'We honour ex ceedingly the Constitution of 1812, just as we would have honoured any other Constitution. In a word, we may fight for Spain and Madame Munoz as much and as long as we like ; but to say anything in reference to the Constitution for which ,our blood and treasure prepared the way is to be illiberal, and Lord Palmerston will not 'be illiberal. To him one Constitution is as good as another. Madame Munoz and King Alfred are alike—with this difference in favour of the former, that there is a chance just at the pre sent moment of making something by her.—Morning Post. ACCOUNT GIVEN OF THE ESCAPE OF HENRY WILLIAMS FROM NENTGATE BY HIMSELF. It was stated some days ago in the Observer newspaper, that Henry Williams, alias Thomas Whitehead, who escaped from Newgate by climbing the wall of the capital convicts' yard, was apprehended in the county of Hants, for commit ting a burglary at Lyming,ton, and lodged in Winchester gaol. The Lord Mayor having been officially informed of the fact, sent the communication to the Sheriffs, at whose desire Mr. Cope, the Governor of Newgate, wen down to that place to ascertain whether the report was correct, and upon entering the gaol immediately recognised the unfortu nate fellow, who most willingly and fully gay the details of his wonderful adventure. It is necessary, for the purpose of giving something like an adequate idea of the perpendicular journey which Wil liams made, that of the numbers of persons who have visited the prison of Newgate to view the path which he took in his ascent, almost every body went away laughing at the extreme improbability of the enterprise, and convinced that the whole mystery was solved by ascribing to the turnkeys such negligeuce as left an easy transit through the several gates and doors of the gaol. The statement of the man himself, however, correspond ing as it does exactly with the more accu ra t e exam i nat i on of the ascent, and with all the particulars with which those who have the superintendence of the prison are well ac quainted, entirely banishes doubt of the miraculous nature of the escape. The capital convicts' yard, viewed from the top of New gate, presents an appearance of the most perfect security. The walls by which it is surrounded are between sixty and seventy feet in height, and form four right angles. In one of these angles, near which there is built, some feet from the ground, a water-cistern, the granite has been rendered more rough, and what builders call rusticated, in consequence of the burning of a large quantity of scaffold-poles and ladders, which were deposited against the side of the wall at the time of the riots of 1780, and which caught fire and were totally consumed. About fifty feet from the pavement of the yard is erected a revolving iron -work, or chevau de frieze, to prevent the ascent of any person who might have the aid 'ropes from above, and considerably higher than that are fastened in the wall, between the prison and the adjacent buildings, a number of large sharp projecting iron spikes. Supporting the frieze, there is an iron railing with upright spikes, upon which a man who wants to escape must walk, after having accomplished the task of scaling the walls. The adventurer has then to spring from the railing eight or nine feet, in order to reach the top of the day-room to the cells, and the least slip, after having mounted a few feet above the cistern, must be fatal. Through all these difficulties and perils Williams had to pass ; but although he knew, as he says, that " he had his ' work to de he did not expect to encounter such tedious labour, for he supposed that at the angle at which he had contrived to reach the iron-work, he should have been enabled to reach the top of the wall by getting between the revolving spikes and the wall ; but in this expectation he was disappointed. He could by no means thrust his body into the narrow space, and was obliged to go routd three quarters of the square by means of the iron-work, until he reached the projecting bars of iron under the top of the day room to the cells. He then mounted the topmost wall, in doing which he broke away a little mortar with his foot, and he believed that if a little more had given way, he would have been plunged into the tremendous abyss. He did not trouble himself with looking back at the dangers he had passed, but most philosophically cast his eye round the tops of the houses in New,gate-street, to find some passage to the street, but perfectly convinced that if he could not effect his object by means of the skylight, or ac cidental ladder, he could successfully prosecute his journey down a chimney. The poor devil, however, neither wished to frighten any body by entering an apartment from a chimney, nor to expose himself to the danger of detection. After having overcome the immi years at the house of the late Sir J. Miles at Hoxton ; had been taken from thence on the 6th instant by order of a Mr. Saunders, who, upon being applied to, said that she came from India with a relation of his five years ago, and having been insane upon her arrival was placed and main tained by him until the Gth, at Hoxton, when, by the ad vice of his attorneys, Messrs. Barrow, Vincent, and Plumley, he discharged her, and she was taken into custody by the police, and taken before the Magistrates of Wor nent peril of his enterprise, and moving over the top of the cells day-room, he passed on to the roof of the Ordi nary's house, and finding all possibility of entrance denied there, he climbed over the Nets gate-street roofs, not one of which presented any hope, and then turned to the roofs of the houses in Warwick-lane, upon one of which be saw a woman, who, he says, appeared to him to be an angel, hanging out some clothes to dry on the leads. He hid himself be hind a chimney until she disappeared down a step-ladder, and then followed her gently, and presented himself, with an appeal to her compassion, stated in the evidence submitted to the Court of Aldermen. He had been, after he gained the free passage over the houses, obliged to avoid the gaze of the workmen at Tyler's manufactory, formerly Apothe cary's Hall, in Warwick-square, by incurring other hazardi; -. and finding his coat an incumbrance he left it oa the top of the third house in Newgate-street, so that when he made his appearance before the woman on his de scent, all the clothes he had on were the gaol shirt and trou sers. In passing through the house he had to, encounter another woman, and a girl about fourteen years of age, but his assurance to them that he was running from the gallows, soon cleared the way to the hall door, out of which he walked with sixteen pence in his pocket to begin the world again. He immediately crossed over to Christ's Hospital, where there are some new buildings, but was told by the workmen to leave the place, as there was no thoroughfare, and there was no business on the spot for naked beggars. He then walked up Newgate-street, along Cheapside, and over Lon don Bridge, from which, after givin g a parting glance at t h e c ity, he proceeded on to Wandsworth. The first house into which lie entered after quitting his prison -house was a beer -shop in this village, where he drank "a pint of heavy that gave him comfort." It was now about eight o'clock, and lie walked on till he reached the entrance to Kingston, in a field close to which he stretched himself, and slept soundly till four o'clock in the morning, when hearing the cry of " sweep" in the town, he followed it, and succeeded in getting employment in his old trade from a widow, who gav e hi m w h at he called his " bob and grub, " and cighteen-pen ce for nine days' work. This sort of re muneration not suiting him, he determined to cut the neighbourhood of the metropolis, and in a few days he reached Gosport, where he drank with several persons who knew him, but not one of whom ever " peached' . upon him. The story of his adventures, as told by himself, ends here. He could not, he declares, get any work to do, and was obliged to look for a bit of bread in any company he could fall into, and he was at last apprehended by a pol:cetnan, and charged with having found. his way into a house with out entering by the usual place of a dmission. Mr. COPE asked Williams bow he contrived to spring from the spikes to the top of the wall, at the side of the day-room to the cells, especially as he was barefooted. Williams replied that he felt some inconvenience from the spikes, which stuck up in his feet, and one of which poked a hole in the small of his back, but he found that ' Dife punt • • . ' 1 . 7 4.• -777 ,ra:',8- c... ..,-,.....-.................,........ ht ....T.fii.r. i- ,: #o' l by kep'ng himself steady, and not suffering 3a,;; l t . ):A4q, 1 .,.. 1 4. frighten him, that he was able to get on very - Itai.'' - 4 7 4 . - - - -. 4. 1 ;;?, ", believed that at one time that he should have fa ,) , *t r:. ;g the skylight of one of the houses in Newgat .stro*A4 --2 - '. 4f .-",. i ... part of the mortar gave way, but his good hick sit - Ai c ip w ir oz him all through, and although several persons from fhe gg.: 111 ret windows of the neighbouring buildings and houses saw him, and looked with curiosity at him as he laboured for his release, nobody made the least noise ; and be believed the reason no alarm was given was, that those who beheld him in his perilous situation had humane fears for his life, and determined not to endanger it. Mr. COPE asked him by wha means he managed to mount the wall from the cistern ? Williams replied that he had contrived, by keeping his back to one side of the angle, and working with his hand behind him, while he worked with his bare feet in the nook, but without touching his shoulders, or any other part of his back to the wall, he reached the revolving iron work, but he did not think that if he knew the difficulties would have been so great in passing the iron work he would have thought it worth his trouble. Once however up, he felt as if he was in a chim/ey, and he resolved to go through with the job. He expressed a wish that Mr: Cope would take him back to London, and appeared much dejected on being told that the Governor must return without him. Upon being asked if he was not afraid of being dashed to a mummy at some particular points of his ascent, he said, that there were two or three things lie did not like much, and that lie felt more comfortable when he was drinking the beer at Wandsworth. It is stated, that this unfortunate fellow never committed any violence, nor occasioned any great fright, although report says, that he has more than once visited a house through the chimney, and returned with stray spoons and forks, &c., by the same aperture. Mr. Montague, the City Surveyor, upon looking at the capital convicts' yard, immediately after the escape of Wil liams, said that the story of a departure by such a path as a perpendicular wall, with right angles, was quite absurd. Mr. Elmes, the Port of London Surveyor, on the contrary, upon hearing that the fugitive was a chimney -sweeper, was of opinion that the experiment had been tried and recom plished. The latter has, in the prisons which lie has built, uniformly made the convicts' yards of the octagon shape, from the apprehension that sweeps or sailors might conquer the difficulty of scaling walls of which the angles were not obtuse of more than 45 degrees ; and in the Waterford Gaol he proved the practicability of escape by angular walls, by directing a chimney-sweeper to ascend. What ever might have been done, however, upon former occa sions, in the miraculous way, it is most certain that Williams has shown more agility, and more also of what is called by the class to which be belongs " pluck," than any unfortu nate man who has for many years tried to avoid one evil by exposing himself to a much greater. FROM LAST NIGHT'S GAZETTE. WHITEHALL, Auc. 19, 1836. The King has been pleased to direct letters patent to be passed under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom, appointing Thomas Henry Lister, Esq., to be Registrar-General of Births, Deaths, and Marriages in England. WAR OFFICE, Auc. 19. 14th Regiment of Foot—Capt. J. Smith, from the 2nd West India Regiment, to be Captain, vice Sutherland, appointed Pay master of the 56th Regiment, Aug. 19. 17th Foot—Lieut. C. Miller to be Captain, by purchase, vice Baylis, who retires ; Ensign J. T. Maulcverer, from the 61st Re- giment of Foot, to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Miller, Aug. 19. 56th Foot—Capt. G. B. Sutherland, f rom t h e 14th Regiment of Foot, to be Paymaster, vice Fleming, appointed to the 19th Foot, Aug. 19. 61st Foot—W. J. T. Walker, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Mauleverer, promoted to the 17th Regiment of Foot, Aug. 19. 69th Foot—Serjeant-Major G. Rosser, fro m th e 16 t h Light-Dra goons to be Ensign, without purchase, vice Gl en , promote d i n t h e Royal African Corps, Aug. 20. 72d Foot—Major-Gen. Sir C. Campbell, K. C. 8., from the 99th Regiment of Foot, to be Colonel, vice Lieut.-Gen. Sir J. Hope, G. C. H., deceased, Aug. 15. _ . 76th Foot—Licut. R. Bruce to be Captain, by purchase, vice Gossett, who retires ; Ensign H. Brewster to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Bruce; A. Rutherford, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Brewster, Aug. 19. 80th Foot—Captain J. E. W. Browne, from the half-pay Unat tached, to be Captain, vice H. A. Jackson, who exchanges, Aug. 19. 92d Foot—Lieut. A. I. Lockhart to be Captain, by purchase, vice Mackay, who retires ; Ensign K. D. Mackenzie to be Lieu tenant, by purchase, vice Lockhart • Gentleman Cadet F. W. Johnstone, from the Royal Military &liege, to be Ensign, by pur chase, vice Mackenzie, Aug. 19. 95th Foot--Ensign R. S. O'Brien to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Abbott, promoted in the Royal African Colonial Corps, Aug. 19._ 99th Foot—Major-General Sir T. Arbuthnot, K.C.8., to be Colonel, vice Major-General Sir C. Campbell, appointed to the command of the 72d Regiment of Foot, Aug. 15. Ist West India Regiment—Lieut. .1. G. Hierlihy, from the half pay of the Newfoundland Fencibles, to be Lieutenant, vice Collis, whose appointment has not taken place, Aug. 19. 2d West India Regiment—Capt. R. P. Pack, from the half-pay Unattached, to be Captain, vice Smith, appointed in the 14th Re giment of Foot, Aug. 19. Royal African Colonial Corps—LieUt. T: Abbott, from the 96th Regiment of Foot, to he Captain, without purchase, vice Fraser, promoted; Lieut. W. Shaw, to be Captain ; Ensign E. S. Glen, from the 69th Regiment of Foitt, to be Lieutenant, without pur chase, vice Shaw, A ug. 19. BREVET. Major W. Wylde, of the Royal Regiment of Artillery, to be Lieutenant-Colonel in the army, Aug. 19. MEMORANDUM. The Christian . names of Ensign Cole, of th e 6th F oo t, are Richard Sweet," and not " Robert." Commission by the Lord Lieutenant of the County of Southampton. South !Tanis Militia.—W. W. Tyndall, Gent., to be Lieute nint, rice J. W. Fleming, resigned, July 2. BANKRUPTS, ROBERT CAMP SHEPHERD, carrier, Camomile-street, Bishopsgate-street, to surrender August 24, at one, and September 30, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Pennell, official as signee; Gray, jun. Flemmings-street, Kingsland-road. JOHN KNOWLES ; ship and insurance agent, Birchin-lane, August 26, at one, and September 30, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Fourdrinier, Salvador-house, Bishopsgate-street ; Turquand, Coriall-buildings, official assignee. BOWL AN HUNTER, bookseller, St. Paul's Churchyard, August 29, at eleven, and September 30, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Taylor, Turner, Sharpe, and Field, Bedford-row ; Whitmore, Basing,hall-street, official assignee. PETER ASTLEY, woollen warehouseman, Wood-street, Cheapside, August 29, at twelve, and September 30, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Aston and Wallis, New Broad-street; Whitmore, Basinghall-street, official assignee. JOSEPH DELAMORE, grocer, Liverpool, September 9, and 30, at one, at the Clarendon-Rooms, Liverpool. Davenport, Druid-court, Dale-street, Liverpool ; Raynes, Norfolk-street, Strand, London. RICHARD PULLEN, flax-merchant, Selby, Yorkshire, Sep tember 6, and 30, at eleven, at the Black Swan Hotel, York. Tilson, Squance, and Tilson, Coleman-street, London ; Allison, Richmond. MILES PYE, victualler, Aintree, Lancashire, September 9, and 30, at eleven, at the Clarendon-Rooms, Liverpool. Adling ton, Gregory, Faulkner, and Follet, Bedford-row, London , Brown, Exchange-street East, Liverpool. THOMAS STEPHENS, maltster, Chaxbill, Gloucestershire, September 2, and 30, at twelve, at the Lower George Inn, Glou cester. A' Beckett, Golden-square, London ; Carter, Gloucester ; Herbert, Northleach DIVIDENDS. At the Court of Bankruptcy, Basinghall-street. W. J. Muggeridge, brewer, Trinity-street, Rotherhithe, Sept. 9, at eleven—J. Grant, merchant, Coleman-street, Sept. 9, at two V. er C. Lee, grocer, llastiugs, Sussex, Sept. 12, at one—J. Cox, Yorkshire, Sept. 1Z at half-pa s t e l even —E. E dr maker, Brighton, S ept. 12' at half-past tw o —J. and J. Rose, 3b diee p flt° rOs l •ision merchants, Symond's Wharf, 'l'ooley-str e et, — i d p r e ~ c l a e S e pt. 10, at eleven—T. T. Harrington, merchant, Cornhill, Sept. 10, at twelve—.l. Boyn, merchant, Crutched-friars, London, Sept. 10, at one—J. Hayward, rnalster, Woodbridge, Suffolk, Sept. 17, at eleven—A. 11. Smith, grocer, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Sept. 15, at eleven—ll. J. Northcote, wine merchant, Lime-street, London, Sept. 17, at twelve—P. Le Souef, merchant, Great Winchester street, London, Sept. 17, at one. In the Country. • r ,7.7.4 J. Batting, corn dealers, Aston, Birmingham, re the one, at Raliefilthrse Ni uelltry - Ilirrn;:ig'nain--Zu. , upon baker, Lane End, Stoke-upon-Trent, Staffordshire, Sept. i_the two, at the Dolphin Inn, Southampton—J. W. Gough, stationel, Dursley, Gloucestershire, Sept. 12, at eleven, at the Old Bell Inn, Dursley—W. Weeks, wine merchant, Southampton, Sept. 13, at two, at the Dolphin Inn, Southampton—J. Turley, iron master, Bilston, Staffordshire, Sept. 16, at ten, at the New Hotel, Wol verhampton—J. Rhodes, clothier, Longwood, Huddersfield, Sept. 15, at eleven, at the George Inn, Huddersfield. CERTIFICATES---SEPT. 9. E. Gates and W. Cornfield, drapers, Northampton—J. L. Lucas, surgeon. Napton on-the-Hill, Warwickshire—S. Brown, grocer, Tealby, Lincolnshire—W. Marns, rope manufacturer, Arbour-place, Fairfield, Stepney—T. Rogers, straw bonnet maker, Cranbourne street, Leicester-square. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. W. and T. Sirar - i - ge;a;s, butchers, Richmond, Yorkshire—J. Grant and J. Reid, wine-merchants—R. Wall and J. Footman, linen-drapers, Ipswich, Suffolk—C. Stanley and J. Gallimore, bobbin-makers, Stockport—J. and J. Butler, builders, Paddington —J. Lowe and J. Moss, c abinet-makers, Leeds-road, Bradford, Yorkshire—M. Yeatman and D. Gingell, surgeons, Bristol—P. V. Firmin and Co., button-manufacturers, Strand, (so far as re gards R. S. Firmin)—J. and W. Richardson, booksellers, Bristol— J. Templeton and J. irnde r sh awl - manufacturers, ouns,Burniey, Alan- ehester—J. Pilling and o Lan cashire—C. Slatterie and A. Boully, brewers, Hoxton Old Town —J. H. Gosling and R. Barratt, linen -drapers, Upper Tooting, Surrey—H. Roberts, T. Firth, and W. Sutcliffe, worsted-spinners, Bradford, Yorkshire—J. Stephens and J. H. Charleton, twine manufacturers, Ashfield, Penzance —H. Boag and Co., farmers, Yetlington, Northumberland— T. Price, G. H. an d A Powell, mercers, Hay, Brecon. The Tithe CommissiouersareP and it will give the cou n t r y great sat i sfaction to learn that , Mr. Bla mire, the Member for Cumberland, a gentleman intimately acquainted with agricultural matters and the state of property in the north of England, is the Chief Commissioner. The other Commissioners arc Captain Buller and Mr. Jones. The latter gentleman is, we believe, the Professor of Political Economy in King's College, and is understood to have sug geeted the plan on which the Commission was originally pro posed. The Chief Registrar of Births, Deaths, and Marriages in England is Mr. Lister, and his appointment will be found in our extracts from the Gazette of last night. This gentle man is the author of some distinguished publications, and was lately one of the Church Commissioners fur Scotland.